Hi Mathias, On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 01:28:13PM +0200, Mathias Behrle wrote: > > Thanks for clarifying your approach. This was just my attempt to follow > official > recommendations (i.e. searching for sponsors after uploading to mentors.d.o.). > Now knowing, that you are willing to give me some support on this side and > that > you preferably work from VCS, it will ease things for me, too (saving this > extra upload to mentors).
>From my perspective mentors.d.n is helpful if you are *seeking* a sponsor. If you know a sponsor who just volunteered to upload your packages (be it a single person or a team) it does create some overhead we could probably save. > > If you want me to ask for registering a pkg-tryton project (or whatever > > name you want to suggest - feel free to do so) I'd volunteer to do so > > and grant you admin permissions. However, the announcement[2] is 10 > > years old and there was no DM status at this time - I can't believe that > > you should not be able to register a project that makes perfectly sense. > > Why not simply go to > > > > https://alioth.debian.org/register/ > > > > and fill in the form. WOrst that can be happen is that your request > > will be rejected but I have severe doubt that this will happen. > > I simply went there and got a big fat red "Projektregistrierung ist beschränkt > auf Alioth, nur Administratoren können neue Projekte anlegen." > So, no, I didn't get rejected, it was just not possible to create any request. Uhmm, that comes unexpected to me. Just tell me if I should register such a project (once you might agree to the policy). > > I admit people might have a different sense of humor - but this World > > Domination thingy is just a running gag. I think there is no doubt that > > it only can be a joke. > > The document is meant and linked as *policy*. I think (and support), there is > very little humour in Debian, when it comes to policies as DFSG etc...;). > Humour is just not appropriate in policy documents. I admit that a policy document should refrain from humor and some better wording should be found. > Whenever I will have a little spare time, I will make another proposal. As > long > as this remains unchanged, it is indeed a showstopper for me. >From my perspective technically the wording would be worth a bug report severity minor - I would not regard minor bugs as showstoppers. (Just to explain my point of view, not trying to change your mind.) > The recent output (19 modules) is due to stalled development in the last 2 > years. Now that I have a working environment I am up-to-date again. Usually > there are ca. 1-3 new modules per release, which makes 2-6 packages a year. No problem. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
